Insights

The U.S. and Russian leaders should seize the opportunity to achieve greater stability, if not cooperation, writes political scientist Igor Istomin.

A new website from the Program on Central Asia facilitates research on the regions spreading east and west of the Caspian Sea.

Marvin Kalb, AM ’53, was awarded the 2021 Centennial Medal for his work as a journalist and founding director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.

Reflections on the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Soviet physicist on the centenary of his birth.

Disputes over alleged meddling are not merely rhetorical dueling between Moscow and Washington. Rather, they reflect profound social challenges and their destabilizing effects, says Igor Istomin.

War and Peace challenges us to distinguish historical narrative from our own motives and experiences, writes Sydney Stotter.

The latest revelations about the penetration of Bulgaria’s national security bodies by Russian intelligence services have raised a host of troubling security questions for U.S. and NATO policymakers.

Strong interpersonal relationships can be an asset in negotiations. But you should never rely on them alone to produce positive breakthroughs.

U.S. policy makers have traditionally treated Central Asia as peripheral to American policy priorities—and that stance is unlikely to change in the near future.